Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs Eyes Toronto for Its Digital City

Re:Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs Eyes Toronto for Its Digital City by rayiner on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @06:49AM (#14307239)

Maybe. AT&T started deploying FTTN to major cities like Houston and Chicago in 2005-2006 (four years before Fiber). Their gigabit buildout was based on that original plan (which dates to SBC). Comcast has been on the DOCSIS upgrade treadmill for years. In the 7 years before Fiber they went from 8 to 100 upgrading to DOCSIS 2.0 then DOCSIS 3.0. Gigabit is another 10x jump over a similar time frame, based on DOCSIS 3.1.

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Re:Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs Eyes Toronto for Its Digital City by Animats on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @12:36PM (#14309537)

There was also Verizon FIOS, which started in 2005, expanded to 5 million customers, then stopped expanding much after 2010. It apparently cost Verizon more than they'd expected.

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